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Charlie Kirk (0:00)
Hey everybody. Trump for Congress. You heard me right. This episode we explore a provocative and unique idea that might help save the Republic. I really want to hear your thoughts on this episode and this idea. So email me your thoughts. Freedomarliekirk.com Email the thoughts alongside your subscription to the Charlie Kirk show and you might just win a signed copy of the MAGA Doctrine. Trump for Congress. We explore it amongst many other topics. Buckle up everybody. Here we go. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
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Go to MyPillow.com promo code Kirk. MyPillow.com, promo code Kirk. Welcome back everybody. Email us your questions. Freedom. Charliekirk.com I love creative, off the wall, positive ideas. I love history. So I like things that have happened before, if they work and if they show a blueprint to be able to defend freedom and this beautiful constitutional republic. So I have a provocative idea and other people are posing this in one way or the other. I actually came up with it independent of other people. But I think it's important to share. Steve Bannon has said something similar to this other people as well. I would love to hear your thoughts. On this though, the midterm elections here are going to be some of the most important midterm elections in American history. Republicans are in a very favorable position to take back the House of Representatives. Midterms traditionally have very low voter turnout. President Trump got the most votes of any sitting US President in American history. President Trump has activated tens of millions of new first time voters into the voting process. Republicans like Kevin McCarthy and Lindsey Graham know that if they are going to take back the House of Representatives and the Senate in 2022, Donald Trump is the key to do that. His base is motivated, they're angry and they are not willing to support just any establishment Republican unless President Trump gives them a reason to do it. And even then, you are going to see some tapering off effect. That is, unless. What if Donald Trump was on the ballot? You might say, well, why would Donald Trump be on the ballot in 2022? One of my favorite presidents to study is John Quincy Adams. He's called by many historians that I respect. There's historians I respect and historians I don't respect. But the historians I respect because they're very wise and they're very fair in their historical writings. They call him the smartest president ever, the wisest president. That may or may not be true. Son of John Adams. John Quincy Adams is one of the only presidents to lose a reelection. He was the second to do so. The first was his father, the second US President, John Adams, Washington Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, John Quincy Adams and then Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, who lost re election to Andrew Jackson. So Adams considered permanently retiring from public life after his 1828 defeat. And he was very, very hurt by the suicide of his son, John Washington Adams. But he was so taken back by many of Andrew Jackson's actions. He ran for Congress and he won. John Quincy Adams, a former president, became a member of Congress. He grew bored of his retirement and still felt that his career was unfinished. So he ran for a U.S. house of Representatives seat in 1830 and he won. John Quincy Adams had a lot of power over the legislative direction of Congress in the 1830s, when America was still in its infancy and we were still figuring out who we were as a country. Donald Trump should run for Congress in 2022 and become speaker of the House. Trump for Congress. Lara Trump, by the way, should run for Senate in North Carolina. I think she will. This will activate the 75 million people that voted. If you get 75 million people to turn out nationwide in a midterm election, you will win 80 House seats that Trump base that people are worrying about, how to mobilize and how to activate. This is how you do it. You might say, well, where will he run? Well, they're redrawing all the maps in Florida. They're about to draw a very conservative district right near Mar a Lago. You don't have to live in the district that you run in. Donald Trump wins by 30 points. And with it, Donald Trump will raise about 600 to $1 million, to $800 million to help other House candidates across the country. The Democrats will have a slow moving, unpopular administration to defend with Kamala Harris and Joe Biden. And Donald Trump then can be speaker of the House against President Joe Biden, controlling a legislative branch against the executive. And in the line of succession, it would go Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Donald Trump. And then Donald Trump can launch his presidential campaign if he so chooses, for 2024. Or he could say a kingmaker and control speaker of the House. And he would be the first president in American history to be impeached twice, acquitted twice, won an election, lost an election, became speaker of the House. That's a pretty cool thing to say. What is he gonna do, golf for the next couple years? I'm saying this 100% serious, but I'm saying it with levity, obviously, because this idea is new and some of you might think it's a good idea, some of you might not. And I want you to email me your thoughts on this idea. Trump for Congress. Freedomarliekirk.com and for some of you, say, I need him to run for President. Well, this would actually not restrict that either. He could run for Congress and he could run for President. The Democrats will be running for the hills if Trump were to run again in 2022 in the midterms. So Kevin McCarthy has embraced Donald Trump. Mitch McConnell has dumped Trump. There's still 70 to 75 million people that will go and vote in a midterm election. Let's pretend it's only 55 million people. 20 million sit out. That's an extraordinary amount of people to vote in a midterm election. We're talking about governor's races, Senate races. You take back legislative control and then you have Donald Trump as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, where then all the people in Congress that he's had to deal with for so long will have to deal with him. Now, the other option is that Trump can go and help a lot of these House candidates. And the speaker of the House does not have to be a member of Congress so he could become speaker of the House as a non member of Congress. But the point is this. It's time to play offense against the Democrats. And what a Trump for Congress idea would do is in the interim here, where we're trying to find who's in charge, where the leader is, let's go raise hundreds of millions of dollars quickly to go take back the House and keep this movement going. You want to clarify the record. You want to make sure that the Democrats are not able to miscategorize those of us that believe in conservative values as being domestic terrorists. Let's go out and advocate for our ideas publicly and win public office. Democrats are already slated to have a very bad midterm. The incumbent party does very poorly on midterm elections. That is one of the things that manifests itself repeatedly in American political history. Our production team said, did you just say the speaker of the House doesn't have to be a member of Congress? That's correct. You do not have to be a member of Congress to become speaker of the House. You do not. They can elect any private citizen that they choose. It is a very little known provision in the rules of the House of Representatives. You could be a non House of Representative member. I don't think it's ever happened before. So Trump could still become speaker of the House if he bargains a deal and he says, look, we're gonna take back the majority. I'm gonna go raise a billion dollars and campaign for all these candidates, but you're gonna go elect me for speaker so he could do it as a non member too. I just think it would be cooler if he was a member of be. More likely they'd elect him as speaker of the House in an instant. There's some very interesting creative ideas because here's the long and short of it. Donald Trump is just as popular today as he was before January 6th. He's sitting on hundreds of millions of dollars that could be deployed politically. He is a grassroots machine that is ready to be deployed at any moment. It'd be a mistake not to use it. It would be the ultimate way to play offense right now in this era where they are trying every way they possibly can to dominate American politics, why not elect the man who got the most votes of any sitting president in American history to Congress and with it, speaker of the House. And so Donald Trump, in a very interesting way, has been. I think he was listening to a Simon and Garfunkel song recently. The sound of silence is the silence from Trump. The Last couple weeks has been deafening. No Twitter, no Instagram, no Facebook, no YouTube made a press release here and there, but his lack of commentary on everything that's been happening has been very loud. I just love that song from Simon and Garfunkel. The sound of silence and the people bowed and prayed to the neon God they made. The words of the prophet are written on the subway halls and tenement halls to beautiful poetry. And more importantly, it's an obvious contradiction. It's an irony, because silence has no sound, but it's perfect because when there is no sound, sometimes that sound is deafening. And so the globalist himself, who's worth, I don't know, 130, $140 billion, Bill Gates, he's come out and said something very surprising, but he said it for a reason that is different than why you might think he's saying it. So Donald Trump's been kicked off of all social media. And so Donald Trump has made a strategic decision to just go completely radio silent. He says, fine, you want to kick me off all these platforms, I'm not going to give any of your activist media networks any sort of monetization on my comments. We're done. I'm going to allow the sound of silence to blanket the airwaves. Now, I'm not going to lie. I would have loved his windmill commentary this week. I missed the tweet at 5am two days ago in all caps that would have been sent. All caps. Windmills are the worst. We need fracking hashtag maga. Or the tweet after that at 5:03am that would have came in all caps. Joe Biden, call me if you need help with windmills. And so Donald Trump has decided to use the sound of silence as an offensive weapon. And it's been working. So the Democrats and the ruling class, they're realizing, wait a second. When Trump is not talking, it's very hard to attack him. So let's get him talking again. And let me be very clear. Donald Trump voluntarily not saying something which I support the strategy because I think it's been brilliant, is not the same as me saying I want him not to have access to social media. It's a completely different thing. And nor am I saying that him not having access to social media has been a good thing. That's not my argument. The nuance is Donald Trump shutting himself up. That's probably a little brutal way to say it. Donald Trump stopping discussion voluntarily has been a chess move the media can't figure out. And this is why Bill Gates, the globalist, is saying, well, maybe we should allow him back on social media. Cut 56.
